heres my experience,
I have an old Asus Nforce4 ultra chipset board and a old MSI K neo board in the garage somewhere. I know they'll both crank up if i put them back together. On the other hand ive also had two gigabyte boards, one AGP board and a GA-MA790XT-UD4P, they're both dead. the AGP board just died and the UD4P got the famous fruit loop boot loop. luckily my brother just upgraded to a sabertooth and i got his old asus board, which is running great.
so IMO Gigabyte is garbage.